Articles | Volume 17
https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-17-115-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-17-115-2020
06 Jul 2020
 | 06 Jul 2020

Regional atmospheric reanalysis activities at Deutscher Wetterdienst: review of evaluation results and application examples with a focus on renewable energy

Frank Kaspar, Deborah Niermann, Michael Borsche, Stephanie Fiedler, Jan Keller, Roland Potthast, Thomas Rösch, Thomas Spangehl, and Birger Tinz

Data sets

COSMO-REA2 regional reanalysis Hans-Ertel Centre for Weather Research https://reanalysis.meteo.uni-bonn.de/?Download_Data___COSMO-REA2

Post-processed radiation Hans-Ertel Centre for Weather Research https://reanalysis.meteo.uni-bonn.de/?Derived_data_sets___Post-Processed_Radiation

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Short summary
Reanalyses are long-term meteorological datasets that are based on numerical weather prediction models and the assimilation of historic observations. The regional model COSMO of Germany’s national meteorological service (Deutscher Wetterdienst) has been used to develop regional reanalyses with spatial resolution of up to 2 km. In this paper, we provide an overview of evaluation results and application examples at the European and national German level with a focus on renewable energy.